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“e) Recognizing that disability is an evolving concept and that disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinders their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others,
h) Recognizing also that discrimination against any person on the basis of disability is a violation of the inherent dignity and worth of the human person,
j) Recognizing the need to promote and protect the human rights of all persons with disabilities, including those who require more intensive support,
l) Recognizing the importance of international cooperation for improving the living conditions of persons with disabilities in every country,
n) Recognizing the importance for persons with disabilities of their individual autonomy and independence, including the freedom to make their own choices,” UN.org

In English

Visit with trouble

Open letter

Now it has happened again. I had to go to the toilet, there was crisis and I ran into at the gas station close by. When I come into the toilet I see this fragrance machine hangs on the wall and with asthma, this is a health hazard, one gets lung congestion and difficulty breathing and can not get enough air, but I had to choose at this and do in the pants. Nobody want to do in their pants so I had to go, it is easy to understand, but it sucks to have to choose between go to the bathroom and asthma attacks. Same actually goes for all localities, one should not have to avoid going there and in that sense be locked out.

A scent machine on the wall, cause breathing difficulties all day, and more.

For several hours afterwards I had difficulty breathing and had to use a lot of medicine. This is about accessibility, a toilet to the public should all be able to use, it should not be such that only people without disabilities can use the toilet.

You who produce, sell and use these products you support happily that it has been approved by IFRA, the International Fragrance Association, which claims this is fine and not causing allergy or other illnesses. What you must understand is that IFRA is an organization for the perfume industry and they go industry errands, they are not any interest organization for us with asthma and other lung diseases, allergies, mcs, shr and other sensitivities. Whatever they say this is not safe products for us. I am living proof of this and I’m just one of very many. WHO estimates that there are 300 million people with asthma in the world (figures from 2011 so it is certainly many more today) and in Europe it is estimated to be approximately 30 million people with asthma (figures by WHO and Ginasthma and The European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations (EFA), then not all other lung diseases and sensitivities are included in the figures, nor mcs and shr and other sensitivities. in Norway counts that around 20-25% of the population, about 1 to 1.2 million people have asthma and allergies. For example stated by The Norwegian Asthma and Allergy Association (NAAF) is that about 1,4 million people in Norway get health issues from fragrance (regardless of source), and 0,5% can not participate in the society of that cause.

I notified the station owner to take it down, everyone should be able to use the toilet. No one should have to choose between being sick and going to the toilet, or any other rooms either for that matter. For us with asthma Ventoline is a necessary lifeline and we must medicate with Ventoline 24/7 the whole life, while others do not realize a thing and pollute the air with fragrance substances. Today because of a trip to the toilet at Circle K I got a really bad powerful asthma attack because I had to use the toilet at the Circle K, first it was only little but after 4 minutes it struck out in full bloom and I coughed powerfully, narrowed windpipe in the lungs, wheesing heavily when I TRIED breathing, it was not easy to get air, the eyes were bloodshot, I was out of strength because I had lack of oxygen. There were problems getting the medication into the nebulizer (inhaler in image above) because I was in such a bad shape, I was very sick. Then I had came into the office and colleagues asked lots, they surely did not know what to do, and why I was so ill. It was problem medicating. Eventually I got in me medicine anyway and afterwards I could talk and explain why it was so bad. Blame this time was a scent machine on the wall in the toilet.

Now I urge you who have such on the wall of your premises to take it down in whatever business or place, wherever it is located, if it is in the toilet or other facilities. If the manufacturer has told you that it does not trigger allergies? Then you have been lied to. The scent you spread in the room contains a lot of substances that irritate the airways in the lungs and activates allergic reactions, it makes your customers and visitors will be sick by the visit and it hangs in from a few hours to several days depending on how sensitive the person is being unable to tolerate the. When you have received such a large asthma attack by a visit with you then one is also more sensitive to everything for days afterwards.

I want to make it very clear: It’s not important who is using it, who has installed it, or who delivers to whom, what is the problem is that it is produced and put into use. We are designed to breathe air, not chemical pollution, what is relevant here is that the air becomes unfit to breathe when fragranced.

I would also like inform you that it is an offense to disclose those who do not tolerate it in accordance with the Norwegian Equality and Anti-Discrimination Act § 9.

LHL website screenshot, in English below:

“LHL say that it must be emphasized that the requirement for universal design in Discrimination and Accessibility Act § 9 also includes measures to prevent exposure to various allergens and irritants, including scented products. LHL also believe that it should be allocated for preventive educational activities so that more people will pay attention to that scented products can inflict injury. LHL urges that:
◾public enterprises and government services adopt perfume-free working environment in the interests of users and employees.
◾privat businesses and employers are doing the same.
◾private persons do take into account sensitive persons by avoiding scented products in situations where you get close to other people.

LHL Asthma and allergies have made a poster stating fragrance free zone. The poster can be downloaded and posted where it is needed. ” LHL Asthma and Allergy

The United Nations (UN) has adopted accessibility and rights for people with disabilities, including:

“e) Recognizing that disability is an evolving concept and that disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinders their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others,
h) Recognizing also that discrimination against any person on the basis of disability is a violation of the inherent dignity and worth of the human person,
j) Recognizing the need to promote and protect the human rights of all persons with disabilities, including those who require more intensive support,
l) Recognizing the importance of international cooperation for improving the living conditions of persons with disabilities in every country,
n) Recognizing the importance for persons with disabilities of their individual autonomy and independence, including the freedom to make their own choices,” UN.org

What is a disability?
Lung diseases such as asthma and others, allergies and other sensitivities is a disability, a handicap. How? The definition of a disability is:

According to Norwegian public reports,
NOU 2005: 8 of equality and accessibility. Legal protection against discrimination on grounds of disability. Defined disability as:

“Disability arises when there is a gap between the individual’s capabilities and design or function in an environment / environmental / construction.” Norwegian public reports NOU 2005: 8 of equality and accessibility

I have received relevant information about the Accessibility Act of The Norwegian Government at FRP which was one of the parties that responded to my inquiry about the right to fresh air.

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” Discrimination and Accessibility Act “establish the following: § 9 Obligation to ensure general accommodation (universal design) “Public Sector shall work actively and purposefully to promote universal design within the undertaking. The same applies to private business to the general public “Through Discrimination and Accessibility Act give people with disabilities protection against discrimination. All businesses geared toward the general public are obliged to work for universal design and individual accommodation. Requirements for universal design is drawn into ever more regulations and laws. Also featured in “Plan – and Building Act. Breach of the obligation to ensure universal design pursuant to the public and workforce is regarded as discrimination. ” Norwegian Government FRP

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The same law is also in Sweden, see below for more information about this.

Publication of NAAF and Husbanken (Housing Bank), translation below:

” “Universal design is the design of products and environments in such a way that they can be used by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.”
Requirements for universal design drawn into ever more regulations and laws. Through discrimination and accessibility law gives people with disabilities protection against discrimination. All businesses geared toward the general public are obliged to work for universal design and individual accommodation. “ Husbanken.no

I understand that you might not know this, so I will tell you that fragrance products and such fragrance equipment makes 1 of 4 ill. You will probably not your customers, visitors, clients, colleagues, students or friends any harm?

Turn up the ventilation instead and wash frequently with fragrance-free detergents, fragrance free washing, fragrance free hand soap and use otherwise perfume free products, air out and give us fresh air to breathe, then we which are the one of 4 of your customers / attendants could use your services and premises on equally with all others and without having to go from there with lung congestion and difficulty breathing. At worst, it could mean that we end up at the hospital and that we avoid using your business or premises and spend our money and interests somewhere else. There is no pleasant shopping or visit to your localities if one must become sick from the experience inhaling the polluted air, no matter what source of the fragrance. Now I have told you that, and I hope and pray that you listen and do as I ask. I’m tired of not being able to avail myself of your premises.

Update Sunday 4 September 2016

I had to go acute to the hospital.

3th day: Sunday now. I have had difficulty breathing since Friday because of the fragrance that was active at the Circle K station, now since Friday I’ve had repeated difficulty breathing and burning sensation from the upper respiratory tract and down into the lungs, my own medicine has not been enough so I had to take to the emergency room at the hospital. CRP was below 5, no bacterial infection or virus. I also have increased medication with Prednisolone now 60 mg and more asthma medicine to get rid of the inflammation that’s been caused on me by the chemical influence of perfume chemicals in the room. When is it that people will understand that perfume is not a harmless cozy thing for the benefit of all? There is no wellness in chemically polluted air.

Why should I have to suffer for your habits? Why should I have to go on such a medicine regime and at the hospital because you perfume?

Not only that I have to take medication, but it does mean great suffering in everyday life, and to be totally honest one can die of asthma, a severe asthma attack suffocates the person having it.

“4.4 Special warnings and precautions
If the patient must increase the use of β2-agonists with short duration to control asthma symptoms, it indicates a worsening of the disease. Sudden and progressive deterioration of asthma symptoms are potentially life-threatening,” Norwegian Medicines Agency Slv.no

What is asthma?

Asthma is a disease in the lung’s airways called bronchi and bronchioles, it is a chronic inflammation of these tiny airways, it is caused by sensitivity or allergy (immunological reactions) and aggravation comes from being exposed either to allergens (substances not tolerated) or irritants (substances irritating the airways), and when this happens the lung airways are constricted of mucus while the muscles surrounding these airways spasms and makes airways very cramped, these two things helps narrow and block the passage for air to pass and one gets trouble breathing. The difference in asthma and COPD is that asthma symptoms occur only at the negative impact of things the persons health can not tolerate, while COPD means difficulty breathing 24/7 and with worsening by irritants, it means that the disease conditions and symptoms of asthma can be avoided by protecting the sick from these substances and situations.

Perfume is one of those things that provoke and trigger asthma attacks – and other lung diseases, allergies and sensitivities. You have to rethink Your use of perfumes where the public go, whether scented products, scent machines, scent marketing, perfume on yourself, in your clothes, hair products, lotions, hand soaps etc.

Update Monday, 5 September 2016

Day 4: I had hoped the asthma would get better now after I was in the hospital yesterday, but not, I have mucus build up in the lungs and I am coughing up mucus, full scale of allergic rhinitisas nose runs constantly, very easily irritated lungs, cough, heavy breath and hard to breathe when I walk a longer distance, and I have had to take 60 mg Prednisolonetoday, and 6-8 doses 2,5 ml 2 mg / ml Ventolineinhaler to calm the lungs and I’m not done yet, it is several hours before the day is over. All because of one scent machine that spreads perfume in a room. Going to the doctor tomorrow again so I shall take this up with my doctor.

Update Tuesday, 6 September 2016

Day 5: This morning at 0400 I woke up by constriction of the lungs, coughing very powerful and coughed up surely a cup of mucus, coming from the lungs. My allergic Rhinitis lets nose drain unstoppable. I was at my doctor’s office, CRP was below 5 again so therefore there was no bacterial infection or virus. After I got from the doctor today, I met the neighbor outside the house who asked if I was sick? They were awakened by my cough when I coughed up mucus that clogged the bronchioles and bronchi of the lungs to clear the airways to get breath. This was before breakfast, and breakfast was full dose of medicines: 60 mg Prednisolone, 10 mg Singulair, 10 mg Ceterizin, 2 doses of Symbicort Forte 320/9, and a vial Ventoline 2,5 ml 2 mg / ml inhalation. So some fruit. I was to the family doctor and addressed the asthma. I’ve been on 60 mg Prednisolone for three days and the doctor says I have to reduce to 40 mg in the morning because otherwise the adrenal glands may be harmed, one should not go on such a high dose Prednisolone for many days as it is dangerous. Then I have to slowly decrease the dozage down over several days to not get damage by the medicine. I must take inhalation with 2.5 ml 2 mg / ml Ventoline inhaled as soon as I feel the asthma starts to rise again to keep airways free, there will be dosages about 10 to 15 capsules per day, about every hour or more often. The doctor took, as I said CRP that did not show anything, no respiratory infection by bacteria or viruses, this is pure asthma. The doctor said that if we do not prevail against the asthma of yours now then we need to admit you in to the hospital. All this medication also makes sure I get side effects in the form of racing heart beat and trembling of the hands. Now I’m on sick leave to the end of the week, and all this because of the perfumed premises where the public go.

I have a question to the Norwegian Asthma and Allergy Association NAAF. You say you will never forbid perfume to ring in public room despite knowing that about 20-25% of the population, ie 1.4 million people in Norway are sensitive to perfumes, and that 0.5% ie 5000 people are so bad hit that they can not participate in society. There are people who are on welfare because they can not participate in society because there is so much perfume chemicals in the air. And you put a NAAF editorialized in FKMI and they go on the same line now. When is it that you will take us that is hard hit by this seriously? Now you have read what has happened to me. Will you ever take responsibility and improve the living conditions of us who have asthma, and other lung diseases, allergies, mcs, shr, and other sensitivities, the group you are put to work for? I am just asking?

This is not an individual case that I have suffered like this, such machines are found everywhere in society, in restrooms, lobbies, entrance halls, hotels, restaurants, in shopping centers, in shops, offices and many other places. When is it that we should get fresh air to breathe?

In non-polluted air I am healthy, in polluted air I am sick, it is straightforward: so what do you plan to do about it? I am in your target group NAAF!

Update Wednesday, 7 September 2016

Day 6: I was set on sick leave by my doctor notified yesterday. I’m the kind of person that I try to carry on and do my best in length but yesterday my body said no. I had recurring breathing difficulties which I had to curb with strong medication, coughing up mucus, was tired and limp, felt weak and sweating. I had to give up and let my body heal, it does not work going to work like this.

Today I woke very early and coughed up mucus, I still have breathing problems and must take medicine. The body has calmed down somewhat when I could be at home in my allergy safe home and rest. Otherwise, I have the same medicine regime as previously except for a slightly lowered dose of Prednisolone to 40 mg which I shall step down to 20 mg after three days. I fell asleep again after 4 hours and slept long. To explain; my breath sounds kind of like an old shoe when walking when I breathe out and in. I have mucus in the lower airways of the lungs and mucus is sticky and difficult to cough up. Having difficulty breathing also affects speech and general condition then you have to have good breathing to talk. Because of asthma I must therefore be home from work.

The time is now 19.30 o’clock on the 6th day with severe asthma and all coughing and difficulty breathing have done that I have a very sore torso, I have pain in the upper body muscles in the chest. The body is overworked. It is so painful to cough that I can hardly do it.

I am healthy in the fresh clean air and sick in polluted air, simple as that. And even if I am at home an asthma attack like this takes time to curb since it is an active inflammation in the bronchi and bronchioles.

Update Thursday, 8 September 2016

Day 7: I woke up again approximately at 0600 of lung congestion and coughing up mucus, I am still hurting in the chest because of all the coughing so to cough up mucus is difficult. I feel tired and weak in the chest, and it hurts. Medication was this morning as usual 40mg Prednisolone, 10 mg Singulair, 10 mg Ceterizin, 2 doses of Symbicort Forte 320/9 (also for evening every day), one vial of 2.5 ml 2 mg / ml Ventoline. I cough a little less today but remains tight in the lungs and mucus formation. It is tiresome.

Today I experienced falling asleep exhausted on the couch to later be waken up by not getting breath, and when I try to cough up mucus the muscles in the chest are too tired to do the job. I coughed for 20 minutes and took inhalation to finally achieve it.

Otherwise, the day passed in a calm character with film and surf, and medicine, coughing, phlegm, etc. throughout the day. Coughed so I kept on throwing up. Yes, it was that bad.

Update Friday, 9 September 2016

Day 8: It’s Friday, a week after that I was in that room with this fragrance machine. I woke up at 0600 by coughing again and have been awake since, coughing up mucus regularly. I have taken medicine 40 mg Prednisolone, 10 mg Singulair, 10 mg Ceterizin, 2 x Symbicort Forte 320/9, Acetylcysteine Sandoz 200 mgand 2.5 mL 2 mg / ml Ventoline inhalation. I must take all of this before I even get to eat, I can not eat with this ongoing cough and phlegm. Normally I take only 10 mg Singulair, 10 mg Ceterizin, 2 x Symbicort Forte 320/9 in the morning (and 2 in the evening), and I can take it after breakfast. Now I have ugly side effects of the strong Ventoline, I’m shaky to the point on my hands, when I hold my hand up fingers are shaking by tremor.

I was to the store to buy food today, it was the first time I was out in public since Wednesday, September 7th, I had prepared myself properly with medicine before I went but after 10 minutes in the store I got worsening of the asthma again, wheezing, hoarseness, hard thick mucus and began to sweat as a resultof it. Fragrance is in the store too. Asthma is tiring for the body and a stress factor.

I’m tired, I’m fed up, but it is maybe hopefully on right path now, yes except for deterioration today. I’m much better than I was last Saturday, but now it’s harder to breathe again, I’m not fully recovered yet and still more sensitive than usual. An already irritated lungs react more and easier on everything my lungs can not tolerate (like for everyone else with this issue).

Update Saturday, 10th September 2016

Day 9: To the hospital emergency room in the middle of the night

Lay in bed and crying, sleepy and tired, cough, phlegm, difficulty breathing and wheezing. Called the hospital for help. Was there at 0320 at night. CRP was 5, no bacterial infection or virus. Got inhalation. Oxygen level better. Nursing Sister was wonderfully kind and thoughtful, I am so tired and stressed by all this that I started to cry like a waterfall at the hospital, and nursing sister was so kind and stroked my arm and my shoulder and comforted me. Home again at 0450. Did not sleep this night.

Now it’s a little beyond the day and I have a little burning in the airways, breathing difficulties are right now small because of the medicine, but I still need to use the strong Ventoline 2.5 ml 2 mg / ml solution for inhalation with nebulizer to thrive. When medication decreases in effect, as will cough grow back, and I cough up phlegm, and besides that I feel a burning sensation in the lungs, and it is the tipping point for whether it goes wrong or not. Just a little needed to tipping it over the wrong way. It’s hard to explain to someone who has not experienced it themselves, but it feels much like; Imagine that you have a fire you will ignite, there is a little flare and it is either to burn or die out, and that’s just the way it is now that the smallest can make the asthma worsen, so I have to take medicine to not be hurt worse. Normally I manage myself using a regular inhaler to take away small problems and have good breath with PEF 500, but not now because of this perfume. And even cooking food can be a worsening problem since it gives away cookery fumes, but one have to eat. Heavy medication and sick leave.

Update Sunday, 11 September 2016

Day 10: Woke up this morning with very much lung congestion and constriction, to explain what it sounded like; almost like a car having starting problems, the dense raspy sound when the car does not get air and the feeling is as if the lungs were filled with insulating material. I have gotten worsening again. The drugs I have does not do the job good enough so I have to go to the doctor again tomorrow.

You have to understand that asthma is not like a light headache you can just take a pill for and everything will be over. The inflammation that are in the lungs of allergens and irritants caused by content ones health can not tolerate stick for several days. It is an inflammation of the lung airways and as known inflammation takes long time to go away. So please show consideration!

Update Monday, 12 September 2016

Day 11: I went to my doctor and was ordained stronger and more medicine plus lung x-ray at the hospital. I told my doctor that the medicine I get at the hospital works better so now I take Atrovent 2.0 ml 0.25 mg / mlto be mixed with my Ventoline 2.5 ml of 2 mg / ml and inhaled – and lungs are X-rayed.

In addition he said, “-NO WORK THIS WEEK!” and put me on sick leave to the end of the week.

Update Tuesday, September 13 2016

Day 12: This night I have actually been able to sleep the whole night through, finally! I woke up at 0700. I believe it is the new medicine. I am still coughing and it is coming mucus when I cough but the new medicine helps a lot.

Though I have a serious voice issue. One need air to be able to talk okay, and having an asthma attack one is also affected on the voice. Since I still have breathing issues even though I have new medicine, my voice is affected. This video was recorded today right before taking a new dose of medicine after 5 hours. The video is subtitled in English, if it does appear directly, please press the subtitle card at the lower right corner of the video. Learn more about asthma, constricted airways and the voice here:

Update Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Day 13: I have been able to scale down a bit on Ventoline, I think it is thanks to the new Atrovent that I have received, it got a longer duration. The asthma cools off but I am not well yet (eg. Symtom free when asthma is chronic).

I have not slept well last night, the increased drug dosage has given me the side effects of dry mouth, I woke up several times a night and been dry as a desert in the mouth and have had to get up to eat and drink something to stop it.

I must increase Symbicort Forte 320/9 to 3 x 2 doses a day, it is the preventive medicine.

The voice is still not good, but I cough not as much and bad anymore, at least not as long as I take medicine. But man am I blue under my eyes, this has been a hart time.

Maybe it goes right way now?

Update Thursday, 15 September 2016

Day 14: I still takes the same medicines, but I took an extra dose of Atrovent + Ventoline last night (ie a total of 5 doses instead of 4), and it seems as if it works. This morning when I woke up coughing I only coughed more easy but I was very dry in the mouth because of the side effects of the medicine. Though, when medication decreases in strength after a few hours when I get a burning experience in the lungs and harder to breathe, to explain how the burning sensation feels like; it is as if I have throat burn in the lungs. The burning sensation decreases in strength when I take medicine. I get in between doses of medication heavy breathing, and when I was at the store today it was bad, and my voice bar not and it was difficult to talk. Tonight I have “throat burn” in the lungs, not so hard time to breathe, I have just taken more medicine. But it seems as if the medication is doing its job when I slowly being better than I was, so I’ll take a extra dose this night as well. 5 times a day is really more than the doctor said I should take, but 4 is too little, to help myself so I take 5. The extra dose I take at night because otherwise there will be too many hours without inhalation during the night. I’m going to the doctor tomorrow again. I am not well yet.

Update Friday, 16 September 2016

Day 15: Today I was at the doctor, he listened to the lungs, it was done spirometry, and I will be remitted to a specialist. I am still very sensitive in my asthma for slightest impact. Because of that it is dangerous to go too long on Prednisone it is now removed from my medicines. I continue as usual with the other medicines. I am on sick leave ’til 26.9.

Update Saturday, 17 September 2016

Day 16: I woke up at 0600 and took all pills and Symbicort Forte 320/9 medication, and then and fell asleep again.

Woke with heavy breathing and had to take inhalation. Before this happened, I have normally been able to just take some Symbicort Forte 320/9 and my asthma and allergy pills in the morning, now I have to use heavy emergency medicine before breakfast. I’m starting to worry that I maybe have gotten a chronic deterioration by the chemical substances were sprayed into the air, wilI I have to have it like this in the future?

Update Monday, 19 September 2016

Day 18: I did not update yesterday, it has not happened much. I’ll still take Ventoline + Atrovent in addition to the usual dose of asthma and allergy medicines, because if I do not then I get easily deterioration. As long as I take medicine so it works. Though, I’m still very easily affected by irritants and allergens in the air, much more than before, so the doctor has decided that I should stay home until it has stabilized. Like this I have not had it before this happened, I was very sensitive, but it’s worse now. I was also remitted by my doctor to a lung specialist in town, they called from lung specialist today, I have gotten an appointment on Friday.

If I have gotten permanent injury, whom should I report and sue? I can not let this go unnoticed. It is not okay it being like this in society, and what if I have gotten an injury that lower my ability to work? I can not help thinking of this.

Update Friday, 23 September 2016

Day 22: Today I went to the lung specialist as my GP Remitted me and it was a rewarding meeting in several ways. Firstly I got to do more breathing tests than I have ever done before, in fact, more thoroughly than it was done by the lung clinic when I was there a few years ago. In total the new lung clinic did 3 different breathing tests, spirometry and two others: one for normal calm breathing where I also should hold my breath for 7 seconds and then breathe again, and another test that simulated stair climbing with heavy breathing and full constriction (machine simulated breathing stopped and me had to breathe against it). Then I met the doctor who turned out to be the same doctor who remitted me to The Occupational Injury Department at Trondheim Hospital about 2008/2009, fun he was know from before.

Much chatting about asthma and what happened to me on September 2, which was why I was sent to him. Since I blogged last Monday the 19th of September, my breathing improved considerably and I have been able to cut out the inhalation of the strong Ventoline and Atrovent on a regular basis, now it’s only once in between i use it. Breathing tests I did showed that I have regained breathability. It sits on about 95% of 100% now, and it’s good, and I hope it gets even better. It should probably work if I stay away from everything, and that means all situations which means contact with what my health can not tolerate, and that means even people using fragrance and fragrance products. Now I take only my regular medication Symbicort Forte 320/9, Singulair, Ceterizin and a small dash with the regular inhaler, as I did before I got sick the September 2nd. Since Friday, I have only used the strong medicines 2-3 times, which is a major advance.

We also came to talk the doctor and I about Symbicort Forte, he said it contains a long time preventive working kind of Ventoline which is one of the components of Symbicort Forte. This was news to me. I also read earlier at Medicines Agency about Ventoline that if you have to take too much of Ventoline when the body can get used to the medication and then lose the effect. I found that when I also take a large dose of Symbicort Forte containing a kind of long-acting Ventoline plus had to take such large quantities of the strong inhalation aerosol Ventoline, so had the body certainly had been given too much and cut out the effect of it, and that’s why I had to get Atrovent. Atrovent has helped me a lot. Thanks to Atrovent I’ve got track of it, and I could cut down on the amount Ventoline. Now I struggle no more with side effects. Asthma and the medical profession is more complicated than you think. Today I have just taken one single dose of Ventoline + Atrovent. If it continue as good as now the next few days then I’ll work on Tuesday. :)

What is fragrance?

Learn from Professor Anne Steinemann at Melbourne University(click the link for more info about her). It is easy to believe that the rules are better in Europe and Scandinavia, but the fact is that the industry is not required to tell you the contents of the hidden word perfume. This you find here:

I want a prohibition

I want it to be prohibited perfuming indoor air, and that it should be forbidden to wash with perfumed cleaning products and the use of spray bottles to clean where the public have access and else go. I am aming at that a ban would only strengthen the rights of us with asthma and other lung diseases, allergies, mcs, shr and other sensitivities. According to Universal Design and Accessibility Act § 9, and the UN declaration of Accessibility and Universal Design, it is already forbidden to use so that a prohibition in practice on scented products will only strengthen the laws already in place. It’s a hassle having to fight alone and opt for equality and availability to the Equality and Availability ombudsman every time there is such hinder as fragrance polluted air, so that we will not have to fight a daily battle, it should be availability also for us and we should not have to become sick.

Also read:

“Known health risks – It is already known that there is a link between the use of cleaning sprays and increased risk of asthma.”(in Norwegian)For this article I can add my own experience: I used JIF spray cleaning products in my work as a cleaner from 2005 -2007 and it adds up and become a lot in 8 hours full time use. I was healthy and had no asthma when I started in the job and after two years I had developed asthma. I read so the safety data sheets for JIF manufactured and sold by LiIleborg AS, and there stood that it contains substances that can trigger allergies, so Lilleborg AS is lying in the article, they know very well that it is not harmless. This information is not given in the store, you have to find it in the product safety data sheets, and this is most likely true for most products. There were other things that were aerosol also that we used and so were there people who smoked too (I’ve never been smoking it was passive smoke). It was too much for my health. So dear ones who read, do think and care about yours and others health, I can sign that when you become sick in asthma then it is something that persist for life, and you will be sensitive to very much. So dear, take this seriously. And I refer you again to Husbanken.noinformation developed in cooperation with NAAF (in Norwegian).

And why do I share now this personal information? Because I want you to understand the seriousness.

In fresh air, I am healthy, and in polluted air I am ill, it is so really simple.

Fragrancing of the air is a violation of the law.

Annelie Molin

There is a Swedish law act against discrimination on disability in Sweden too;

Lack of accessibility is a form of discrimination. As of January 1, 2015 introduced a lack of accessibility as a new form of discrimination in the Discrimination Act. Lack of accessibility means that a person with a disability is disadvantaged by not having taken reasonable measures for accessibility to the person in question will be in a comparable situation to people without such disabilities.
The word disability replaced with “decreased function ability” in the discrimination Act, the Equality Ombudsman, the Education Act and the Act on the employment and hiring of workers.

Sweden and the EU, together with 160 other countries have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This commitment means that states are responsible for implementing universal design, accessibility and reasonable measures.

The application of universal design means that all new products, services, environments and applications designed to be used by all the greatest extent possible without the need for adaptation or specialized design. When developing new products, services, environments and programs target all people.

The point is that we as users have different functional capabilities and characteristics. In this way, we create a society where everyone can participate equally. Producers, authorities and companies can also achieve far more. Accessibility as a group is an entitlement. To create complete accessibility is an unconditional obligation of States to gradually remove existing obstacles in buildings, transportation, information and communications, including information technology and products and services aimed at the general public. Costs should not be an argument against this, the State has the responsibility to ensure protection against discrimination” HSO.se

I like canoeing, photographing, friends, movies, food, humor, and going on trips. I dislike rudeness, dishonesty, violence, nastyness, and people not caring for others. I do not drink much, I do not smoke and I do not do drugs. I love friends who are kind to me and stick with me. If you want to give me a gift, the best gift is to stop smoking and stop using fragranced products. Then you give me health and that dear friend, is the best gift a person can get. It is a gift of love. I got asthma and I am hearing disabled.

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I appreciate humor in the daily words, some words at the site can be a little on the edge but that is not like I am. It is only translations. Private I am very tidy in both language and ways. Humor is humor and the “buisness” of entertainment is to entertain.My asthma blogging is not a complaint wall, it is made to fill the lack of information that is about this wide spread lung illness, called asthma. In 2011 about 300 million people got asthma world wide according to Ginasthma and WHO. My blogg tell you the plain and brutal truth you do not find on your doctors website - what it is, how it affects, and what it feels like. Some is self lived, some is others statements and other info and news. Learn also what you can do to make the days of any asthmatic person a better place to be. Maybe some posts can at times sound like complainting, but the reality is it is not always a sunday strawl either. But the purpouse is not complainting, read it as info.
You can also read about what it is like to be hearing disabled and other stuff.
Can a person with asthma and hearing aid work? - Yes, I work full time, and blog on my free time.
Happy reading folks and have a nice visit!